Re: -DNO_THREADS, select(), signals

[dboreham@netscape.com (David Boreham)]

David J N Begley wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 
> > For the most part, threads work just fine if you don't attempt to mix in
> > oddities such whose behavior is not well defined (such as select) or well
> > implemented (such as signal()).  In a pure threaded architecture, you can
> > completely avoid using select() and signal().
> 
> The next major version of BIND (v9{1}) is apparently heading in this
> direction{2} (threaded, no signals), if it's any help/use/interest.

All the Netscape server products work this way too.
Historically we found that the NT/Microsoft competition
beat the crap out of any product which was NOT
using thread pools, FYI.